Before Pokémon in Toys-R-Us and Naruto in Wal-Mart, before manga was all about selling stuff to 14-year-olds, there was a time when anime and manga were all about sexual degeneracy. »5/07/10 8:30am 5/07/10 8:30am

Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos has left its slimy mark on Japanese manga, anime, pinball, and dating sim games. It always comes back to those infamous tentacles, as seen in adult horror anime such as Toshio Maeda's Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend. »1/04/10 2:25pm 1/04/10 2:25pm

The Japanese catchphrase moe means "budding," mostly applied to young girls. But it's also part of Japanese political satire - in moe comics, the U.S. military and war-torn countries of Central Asia are represented as cute girls and metrosexual boys. »11/13/09 9:00am 11/13/09 9:00am

Why have so many manga titles - including the ever-popular Dragon Ball - been censored in the United States? The fact is that fans here buy manga because they love the Japanese sensibility that censors want to whitewash out. »10/16/09 12:53pm 10/16/09 12:53pm